Bulbanews foundations laid/Interview transcript: Difference between revisions

; Liam Pomfret: That's a very good question, especially since my vision for it has seemed to change daily since I first started thinking seriously about the idea. I'd have to say that my vision is for it to become the hub of Pokemon news on the internet. It goes without saying that this would involve getting the news out as fast as possible, and as accurate as possible, but also, I hope Bulbanews can present a more comprehensive news coverage than we've tended to see thusfar. So instead of just the major news, and a few stories of interest only to the US fans, I'd like to cover literally everything related to Pokemon, from Pokemon competitions and promotions on cereal boxes and up.

; Liam Pomfret: The Wiki, and a large group of able reporters and editors. We can't expect to find out about all the small stories on our own, so those would need to be submitted, and the wiki format helps that greatly. Even if we do decide to prevent normal people creating articles directly, the speed of article creation on a Wiki is much much greater than if we were expecting everything to be done manually, and we've got a lot more media options in Wiki than we do for any other CMS I've tried before. There really hasn't been any way a news reporter could quickly update the accompanying website with all this wonderful content they've found out about before, but now, with the Wiki's on BulbaNews and Bulbapedia, it's possible.

; Liam Pomfret: Not a specific date no, but rather, a specific news story. Thanks to Coronis and the Wiki, BulbaNews should be able to bring out the latest CoroCoro Pokemon news, which should come out sometime around the 14th, before any other english language Pokemon fansite. Since it's espected to be some rather large news, I feel opening with that story would be best.

; Liam Pomfret: There's so many people who have or will be contributing to the project that it's honestly hard to pick out specific people. If I had to identify key figures, I'd have to say Coronis, and of course, yourself. Without you, we would not have the Wiki, and without Coronis, we would not have the rapid access to the latest news from Japan that this project will require.

; Liam Pomfret: At this point, we're still deciding on that. There are merits to having a viewable public "slush-pile" of submitted news that hasn't been looked over by our editors yet, however implimenting it may be a little problematic, and it's unlikely that the slush-pile would be the place where major news breaks first either. It may be better to simply arrange for people to fill out a web form, or in the event of major news breaking, inform an editor via IM or our IRC chat room.